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Model Railroading > Good Looking RustDate: 09/23/03 13:01 Good Looking Rust Author: Chessie-Fan-2 I'm working on weathering a group of new "untouched" frieght cars and I'd like to add realistic (looking) rust on them. Whenever I've tried adding rust, it looks too unrealistic to be passable. I'd like to add vertical rust along rivet lines or spots on boxcars were paint has worn off. Even the insides of coal hoppers that are showing their age or gondolas that have seen many, many loads. Any suggestions or methods on acheiving realistic rust would be great!
Thanks in Advance! Chessie-Fan-2 Date: 09/23/03 13:27 Re: Good Looking Rust Author: Betsy Check out the following links, as well as articles Mike Rose has published in RMC the last couple of years. He uses artist's oil paints, and as you can see, sometimes it's hard to tell which is the model photo and which is the prototype!
http://www.mrhobby.com/rust.html http://www.mrhobby.com/RMCcoming.html Date: 09/23/03 13:31 Re: Good Looking Rust Author: BNSFCajon What looks like good rust to you will be different than what others think looks good & obviously different than what the paint companies think also. Suggest you take some pix of examples you'd like to duplicate &/or look for some on the internet. In other words do a little research. Even that could be fun. Heck just type in "rust" into a search engine & see what you come up with.
Date: 09/23/03 19:02 Re: Good Looking Rust Author: kenw As said, a lot depends on your preferences. I have found that I like water based boxcar red or oxide red, diluted heavily with rubbing alcohol. (paints labelled as "Rust" just don't look like rust to me.)The alcohol wets the surfaces very well, especially all the nooks and crannies where rust starts. I can add it in extremely thin layers/washes, building it up quickly as it dries fast. And it can be removed if you go overboard!
Date: 09/23/03 22:22 Re: Good Looking Rust Author: SDJeff Here's my lastest effort at creating some rust on the trucks and couplers. I would've got some better pics just showing the trucks but my camera is in the shop for repairs.
Jeff Date: 09/24/03 10:05 Re: Good Looking Rust Author: mayor79 Ive found that anything labeled "rust" tends to have more of an orange tinge to it, thus making it rather bright and really nice for new rust. At least in my experience. Unfortunately 99% of the rust we see on rolling stock, equipment, etc is probably not very new.
My solution to this was to go to a craft store and buy some artists acrylic paints. They are a little more expensive than model paints but if you get the right colors you can get a very nice effect. I bought tubes of raw umber, burnt umber, burnt serria, and one other lighter color that I cant remember. (the first three are a lot darker and work good for older rust) I use that, dull the model down a little with a very diluted blackwashing and some dullcoat and Ive gotten pretty good results. I havent tried this yet to do anymore than little rust streaks on cars, dont know how well it would work to completely rust the side of a car. But like everyone else said, its what you like. Not everyone is going to have the same idea of what good looking rust is. (wow, thats sounds odd when you think about it:) -Mike |